Jewish DP children pose in front of a Zionist flag at the Warburg children's home in Blankenese.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 02730

Overview

Caption: Jewish DP children pose in front of a Zionist flag at the Warburg children's home in Blankenese.
Date: November 1945 - April 1946
Locale: Hamburg-Blankenese, [Hansestadt] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Sally Bendremer Wideroff
Event History: The sixteen acre Kosterberg estate owned by Max Warburg, the prosperous Hamburg Jewish banker, had been in the family for generations. In October 1941 it was seized by the Nazi regime and turned over to the army for use as officers' quarters and a military hospital. Following the German defeat, the British established a field hospital on the premises. A few months later, Eric Warburg (Max's son) returned to Germany and requested the return of the property. As a member of the Joint Distribution Committee's board of directors (his uncle Felix Warburg was one of the founders of the JDC), Eric decided to turn over the estate to the JDC for use as a shelter for Jewish orphans rescued from the concentration camps. Hundreds of children (most of them liberated in Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt) passed through the Warburg home in the three years of its operation.

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Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Sally Bendremer Wideroff

Keyword: CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS) CHILDREN'S HOMES CHILDREN'S HOMES (BLANKENESE) CHILDREN/YOUTH DP CAMPS/CENTERS DPS (JEWISH) FLAGS FLAGS (ZIONIST) GROUP PORTRAITS ORPHANS WARBURG (BLANKENESE ESTATE)
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- Orphans/Children's Homes/Summer Camps -- Germany -- Hamburg-Blankenese